New York City Quiz 2022: 10 Questions on the Big Apple

1984’s movie Ghostbusters takes place in New York City, AKA The Big Apple.

Ghostbusters 2021

Sony Pictures’ trailer for “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” was released on July 27, 2021. Starring Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Carrie Coon, and Paul Rudd, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” was released on Nov. 11. The film’s director, and co-writer, is Jason Reitman (Juno), son of the original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. Watch the trailer.

Radio City Music Hall and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées were designed in Art Deco architectural style. Other famous Art Deco buildings include New York’s Empire State and Chrysler, the Hammersmith Apollo theater in London, the Majorca building in Melbourne, and Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Radio City’s longest shutdown

New York’s Radio City Music Hall reopened its doors Saturday, June 19, 2021, for the first time since closing in March 2020 — the longest shutdown since the Art Deco venue first opened in 1932.

New York’s The Whitney’s full name is the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Biennial in New York runs from Apr. 6 to Sept. 5, 2022, and features 63 artists and collectives.

On Sept. 20, 2021, BTS unveiled a new music video for its single, “Permission to Dance,” filmed at U.N. Headquarters in New York. In the video, the singers are dancing from the General Assembly hall to the garden overlooking the New York East River. Watch the video.

What are BTS doing in the United Nations?

K-pop band BTS addressed the U.N. stage for a sustainability event on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, to help promote U.N. goals for 2030, including ending extreme poverty, preserving the planet, and achieving gender equality. South Korean President Moon Jae-in introduced the pop stars as special presidential envoys and an “exceptionally outstanding group of young men who are connecting with the youth across the world.” The U.N. General Assembly with world leaders started Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.

Photo: The Southern District of New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

David Dinkins was the first African American mayor of New York City, serving in office from 1990 to 1993.

Who’s Eric Adams?

On Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, Eric Adams was elected as the 110th mayor of New York and the second Black mayor in the city’s history. He is a former New York City police captain with a decades-long career in public life.

Rudolph (Rudy) Giuliani was New York City’s Mayor between January 1, 1994, and December 31, 2001. At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Oprah Winfrey called him “America’s Mayor,” while Time magazine declared him “Person of the Year” (pictured.) Twenty years later, New York state has suspended Giuliani’s law license amid his connections to Donald Trump.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez famously wore a white gown with the message “tax the rich” in red to the 2021 New York Met Gala.

What were other slogans worn at the 2021 Met Gala?

New York Representative Carolyn B. Maloney came to the 2021 Met Gala draped in sashes stating “Equal Rights for Women.” American soccer player Megan Rapinoe carried a purse that reads “In Gay We Trust,” and Cara Delevingne wore a Dior vest, with “Peg the Patriarchy” printed in red.

Since April 2021, New Yorkers are permitted to smoke cannabis in public wherever smoking tobacco is allowed. Smoking cannabis, however, is not permitted in schools, workplaces, or inside a car. In addition, tobacco smoking is banned in New York City parks, beaches, boardwalks, pedestrian plazas, and playgrounds but is generally permitted on sidewalks.

Kathy Hochul, 62, is New York’s first female governor in its 233-year history. Hochul, a former Democratic congresswoman who has served as lieutenant governor since 2015, took over from Andrew Cuomo, 63, until his third four-year term in office ends in December 2022. Cuomo announced his resignation as governor of New York on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, over allegations that he sexually harassed at least 11 women.